Did Dragons Really Exist?

Happy New Year from all of us at the Creation Museum! Now is the perfect time to start planning your trip to visit us at the museum and the Ark Encounter this year.

One of the first things that will greet you when your family enters the main doors of the museum is Dragon Hall. This large, winding corridor leading to the rest of the museum starts your visit off with a look into a fascinating subject—dragons.

It’s an interesting thought, considering the word dragon usually brings to mind a mythical creature that surely belongs in the realm of unicorns and minotaurs, right? But there’s evidence that creatures known in the past as dragons were real (though sometimes accompanied by embellished or outright fictional stories, as is seen with many creatures still living today).

Is that to say that flying, fire-breathing dragons that looked like something from a CGI film actually used to exist? Well, sort of. More likely, the “dragons” of the past were part of a broad classification of creatures we see evidence of today—creatures like dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and marine reptiles.

The term dinosaur is itself a relatively modern word, only coined in the mid-1800s. If humans and extinct creatures like dinosaurs once coexisted (which Scripture is clear that they did), then it is only logical to conclude there were other names for them before the word dinosaur entered our vocabulary.

On your next visit to the Creation Museum, plan to spend a few extra minutes in Dragon Hall and take a look at what the Bible, science, history, and legend have to say about dragons!